Michael Webster
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72 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Michael Webster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely.
We all know that uh recording a child's
you know, special moments, sporting achievements is a lovely thing to do in most cases, but
uh there are real risks out there, mainly due to the advances in digital technology, digital manipulation of photos, that sort of thing.
Well, one of the things that we're saying to schools is uh try and focus on the activity rather than identifiaful identifiable faces, for example.
So maybe take a photo of of the race or the school production, but not in a way that uh could lead to people uh cutting and pasting, for example, the faces of children out of that photo when it's put online, that sort of thing.
Uh there are three parts of this.
There's advice and guidance for parents, uh, because they're the ones that take a lot of photos as well.
Uh we need more effective regulation in the online environments.
Uh I think we need
For example, in New Zealand the right to erasure, so you can actually go to social media platforms and say, Take down that photo of me or take down that photo of my child.
Uh Australia's looking at that right now, Mike, in fact.
So that would be a rule.
Yeah, but that that's not in the
It it it it it is it is working in in other parts of the world because uh people are asking for the material to be taken down.
Um but we also need uh online platforms to own uh that they should
exercising more uh care over what ends up on their platforms.
Uh it's
their responsibility to ensure that
really disturbing and and horrific and illegal photography.
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